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by a sliglit]y puuctaie, irapressedline; the front a little convex, widening beneath; tylus 

 .long, of nearly uniform width throughout, curving a little at tip; rostrum reaching 

 to behind middle coxae, wax yellow; antennae of medium length, pale wax yellow, the 

 basal joint moderately thick, longer than the head, the second Joint black at tip, taper- 

 ing slender towards tiie base, about as long as the clavus, the third joint abruptly more 

 slender, about half the length of the second, also black at tip, tlie fourth al out equally 

 slender, very short, black from beyond the base to the tip. Pronotum transverse, bluutly 

 subtriangular, moderately convex, but steeply sloping anteriorly, punctate, polished, 

 more or less distinctly marked with about four red stripes composed of spots; the humeri 

 lobately rounded, marked with a black dor, the lateral margins callous, not leflexed, the 

 posterior margin pale and slenderly retlexed; tlie coUum prominent, deeply cut, abrui^tly 

 narrower than the front of the prothorax; pleural flaps deep, subtriangular, spotted with 

 red, white below, slightly wrinkled, and with a few punctures. Legs long, yellowish-tes- 

 taceous, sh.»ded with red, and with a broad brown band on the knee of middle and pos- 

 terior femora and tibiae in common, tips of tarsi piceous. Scutellum yellow, marked with 

 brown or rufous, or with a round spot on middle and a triangular one at base. Heme- 

 lytra testaceous, translucent, obsoletely punctate and wrinkled, marked with irregular, 

 remote spots of brown or red, at base and apex of cerium and witli vestiges between tiiese 

 points, veins and sutures whitish, cuneus and membrane also with clouded brnwnisli 

 spots. Abdomen minuteiy pubescent, sprinkled with red, somewliat in stripes, leaving a 

 linear space of yellow between, the outer submargiu sometimes marked with brown spots 

 in the suture, apical border of the last ventral ring yellow, the genital segment also yel- 

 low. 



Length to end of abdomen 4 mm. To tip of membrane 5.5 mm. Width of pronotum 

 2 mm. I have examined two specimens from Colorado, and six of both sexes from Ari- 

 zona. It seems to be ccmimon in Arizona and most of the specimens thus far seen have 

 not been maturely colored." 



Steamboat Springs, July 16tli on willow (Baker). 



Neoborns riibecnhis Uhler n. sp. 



"Oblong-oval, minutely pubescent, mostly yellowi.ili or greenish-testaceous, marked 

 with chestnut brown. liead normal, hald, polished grooved, between the eyes, the face 

 nearly ver ical, testaceous yellow, with a broad, curved, brown line on either side; tylus 

 long, narrow, witli a brown line on the middle: the ciieeks yellow, smooth, the sucure and 

 a mark next the antennae rufous; rostrum rufo-testaceous, slender, reaching behind the 

 middle coxae, piceous at base and tip; antennae stout, the basal joint much longer than 

 the head, dark brown, the second joint about ;is lonii as the pronotum and scutellum 

 unite.l, a little tliickening towards the tip, fulvous, dark at base and tip, the third and 

 fourth much more slender, filiform, dark brown, conspicuously hairy, the t.'iird about 

 one-half as long us the second, the fourth still shorter. Pronotum longer than normal, a 

 little convex, strongly siuuated on the sides, the anterior widih reaching to the middle of 

 the eyes, with a sharply . levated ivory-white collum which corresponds to the space be- 

 tween the eyes; the surface transversely wrinkled, coarsely so and a little i)unctate on the 

 posterior lobe, the region of the callosities dark, tumidly prominent, witli the ex erior 

 stibmargin widely flattened, yellow, and the outer border strongly reflexed, punctat,^ the 

 middle line yellow, each side, posteriorly, brown on a rufous ground, the posterior edge 

 yellow; pleural flaps deep, triangular, brown and punctate above, yellow below; the 

 sternum and pleural pieces clear yellow. The coxae and legs yellowish or greenish white, 

 a little reddisli on the posterior femora, the tarsi black at tip. Scutellum brown, feebly 

 convex, pubescent, wrinkled, with a few remote punctures, the middle line and base yel- 

 low. Ulcivus coarsely wrinkled, dusky, paler exterior. y, pubescent, corium. closely 

 wrinkled and pum-tate, testaceous for two-ihirds of its length, red at the costal tip and 

 angularly dark brown on the apical third, the inner border with a yellow line ni'Xt base 

 of cuneus, the cuneus yellow, margined exteriorly with red: the membrane dusky, paler 

 at base exteriorly, the veins yellow, with the areole smoke biown. Exterior margin of 

 venter with a line of brown spots which continue along the pleura to the stripe on the 

 pleural flap; middle of venter yellowish-testaceous, the genital segment more or less 

 marked with red and brown. 



Length to end of abdomen 4.5 mm. To tip of membrane 6 mm. Width of pronotum 

 2 mm. This insect is quite variable in colors. The red is sometimes replaced by olive- 



